From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ahern Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] Proposal for VRF-lite Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:21:06 -0600 Message-ID: <5576F652.4090903@gmail.com> References: <5576AAD2.8010405@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com, jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, Shrijeet Mukherjee , hannes@stressinduktion.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, hadi@mojatatu.com, davem@davemloft.net, stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f181.google.com ([209.85.213.181]:32862 "EHLO mail-ig0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752372AbbFIOVJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2015 10:21:09 -0400 Received: by igbpi8 with SMTP id pi8so14242294igb.0 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:21:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5576AAD2.8010405@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Nicolas: On 6/9/15 2:58 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > I'm not really in favor of the name 'vrf'. This term is very > controversial and > having a consensus of what is/contains a 'vrf' is quite impossible. > There was already a lot of discussions about this topic on quagga ml > that show > that everybody has a different opinion about this term ;-) Are you referring to this thread? https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2014-November/011795.html I could see differing opinions regarding the implementation of a VRF; is there really a controversy on what a VRF is? David